All posts in 'TBI Voices'

Education After Brain Injury: Kelly Part Twenty Five Even though Kelly has never made a gainful living after her severe brain injury, it is worth stating that the cost of the education after brain injury she has received, is justified by the remarkable recovery she has had.  School is one of the..
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Keeping Jobs after TBI: Kelly Part Twenty Four In our 21st Century world, a degree doesn’t equal competitive employment. It doesn’t help in keeping jobs after TBI. Kelly elaborates: So you’ve been working as a massage therapist for ten years now? Yes, I have.  Uh huh. Do you make a living?..
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Massage Therapist After TBI: Kelly Part Twenty Three Kelly talks about how she trained and became a massage therapist after TBI.  She had several other jobs but this one stuck. Journey to Becoming a Massage Therapist after TBI You ultimately got into an actual profession versus working at the Shoney’s and..
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Cognitive Challenge of Driving After TBI: Kelly Part Twenty Two One of the most difficult dilemmas after a brain injury, is the intersection of competing interests between recovery and safety.  Without integrating the survivor back into the real world, no meaningful recovery can occur.  Yet, no one is more at risk..
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Voc Rehab After TBI Recovery Helped In our previous part, Kelly told us about the process and training with the Voc rehab after TBI involved in getting her driving rights restored, through the Tennessee Rehabilitation Center.  She continues on telling about the role this center played for her and the voc..
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Driving After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Twenty In part twenty we talk about other factors of rejoining the real world such as driving after severe brain injury. You were telling us that one of the real problems being back in the real world, is not having your driver’s license and driving..
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Restrictions After Brain Injury: Kelly Part Nineteen In part nineteen Kelly and talk about what going out in the real world means and the her restrictions after brain injury.   You’ve had your graduation.  Now you get to go out in the real world but with restrictions after brain injury: But..
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TBI Rehab Graduation: Kelly Part Eighteen In Part eighteen Kelly discusses more breakthroughs she had with her rehabilitation and the progress she made up until TBI Rehab Graduation. In our previous part, Kelly told us about her mobility savior, her physical therapist Christy, who got her hand to open through use..
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E-Stim After TBI: Kelly Part Seventeen Our previous part about Kelly, ends with her battle for independence by leaving her cane behind her occupational therapist. This act then leads to a fortuitous encounter with her physical therapist. She also touches on the use of an E-Stim after TBI to help the..
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Relearning to Walk After TBI: Kelly Part Sixteen We went back to talking about the process Kelly went through relearning to walk after TBI and how she pushed the limits past what the therapists wanted her to do. Let me ask a couple of questions about that period of time when..
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